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Members from the 48th Operations Group, 48th Tactical Fighter Wing, transport a GBU-24 Paveway III laser guided bomb with an MJ-1 Missile/Bomb lifter, also referred to as a "Jammer."

Soldiers assigned to 3rd Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment

CPL J. Reimer (rear left) and LCPL A. Vaughn from Bravo Company, 1ST Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, drive their Light Armored Vehicle-Command and Control (LAV-C2) into the cargo hold of an Air Force C-5 Galaxy during NORTHERN EDGE

Airmen from the 19th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron

Members of the 5th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron maneuver

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN with the 28th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS), Ellsworth Air Force Base (AFB), South Dakota (SD), remove a pre-cooler unit, from a B-1B Lancer bomber due for deployment in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

South Carolina Army National Guard Soldiers with Detachment

An instructor in the 89B Ammunition Supply Course prepares

Artwork: "Load 'em Up". Artist: Marshall T. Williams. Catalog Number: 9.4.91, US Army Art Collection

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Left side front view of a U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber as it's being guided on the flight line of Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, by a marshaller (Back to camera). The bomber, from the 9th Bomb Squadron, 7th Bomb Wing, returns to Dyess AFB on December 25, 1998, after participating in Operation Desert Fox. Another airman is seen underneath the aircraft preparing to place chucks next to the wheels

A view of Strike Fighter Squadron 37 and 105 (VFA-37 and VFA-105) F/A-18C Hornet aircraft parked on the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67). Some of the aircraft are armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles. The first Hornet in the line is also armed with a Paveway II laser-guided bomb

A1C Lillian Smith prepares a Mk-82 bomb for loading onto a B-52H Stratofortress (not shown) at RAF Fairford, England. Smith is assigned to the 2nd Bomb Wing, Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, and is deployed to RAF Fairford as part of the 2nd Air Expeditionary Group supporting NATO Operation Allied Force

Aviation ordnancemen from Attack Squadron 46 (VA-46) lift a Mark 82 500-pound bomb up to a wing pylon on one of their squdron's A-7E Corsair aircraft on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) during Operation Desert Shield

An air-to-air left side view of an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft of the 34th Tactical Fighter Squadron dropping Mark 82 500-pound bombs over a range at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. The aircraft is also armed with an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile

SGT. Jim Hendricks steadies an Mark 82 bomb being carried by a bomb loader to an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft for loading

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Shawn, guides a general purpose 750-pound M117 GP Bomb as it is removed from the munitions trailer with an MJ-1B Munitions Loader driven by USAF A1C Barbosa. Both are with the Munitions Maintenance Crew and are loading the B-52H Stratofortress in the background for a mission against Iraqi targets during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

An AIM-9 Sidewinder missile is positioned on the wing of an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft in flight beside an 509th Bombardment Wing FB-111A aircraft during a training mission. The FB-111A is armed with Mark 82 high drag practice bombs

Weapons technicians upload a bomb onto the wing pylon of an A-7D Corsair II aircraft during Exercise Gallant Eagle '82

A1C Shannon McLean of 9th Bomb Squadron, 7th Wing, drives an MJ-40 weapons loader to upload an MK-82 bomb onto a bomber in support of DESERT FOX. Various other vehicles as well as airmen can be seen in the background

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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT FOX

Base: Dyess Air Force Base

State: Texas (TX)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: SSG Krista M. Foeller

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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Secretary of the Air Force Sheila Widnall is suited up prior to her U-2 Dragonlady flight. STAFF SGT. Andrew McLean, an aerospace physiologist specialist, integrates the full pressure suit

MJ-1B Munitions Loader "Jammer" driven by US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Barbosa, Munitions Maintenance Crew, as he loads munitions for a mission against Iraqi targets during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. James

US Marine Corps (USMC) Lance Corporal (LCPL) Adam Orozco coils up an air hose, connected to a compressor attached to a USMC MK-23 Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) 7-ton cargo truck (right), after using it to fill a tire of a second MK-23 MTVR truck (left) with air in Nginyang, Rift Valley Province, Kenya (KEN), in preparation to participate in Exercise NATURAL FIRE 2006. This exercise is the largest conducted by US and East African Community Nation military forces in the East African region and it consists of military training, as well as medical, veterinary, and engineering civil affairs programs carried out in the rural areas

US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to the 1ST Force Service Support Group (FSSG) use a Rough Terrain fork lift to upload palletized equipment onto a C-130 Hercules aircraft on the flight line at Al Asad, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force SENIOR AIRMAN Troy Drasher assigned to the 8th Fighter Wing at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea makes final adjustments on the TER-9A Triple Ejector Rack mounted under the wing of an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft. The rack is loaded with MK-82 500-pound general-purpose bombs. The image is from the June 2000, AIRMAN Magazine article "A Year to Remember"

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Marcel Thom from the 96th Bomb Squadron (BS), Life Support, Barksdale Air Force Base (AFB), Louisiana (LA), inspects CNU-129/P Survival Kits during an operational check

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Landon Favors, Weapons Loader, assigned to the 2nd Bomb Wing (BW), checks the safety pins on a Conventional Air Launch Cruise Missile attached to the wing pylon of aUSAF B-52H Stratofortress aircraft while deployed with the 7th Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW) at Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

A view of the USNS Denebola and the vehicles and equipment to be upload

Engineers aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy lower and

Jim Lux, memorial coordinator, speaks to those in attendance

A US Marine Corps (USMC) MK-23 Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) 7-ton cargo truck offloads from a Landing Craft Air-Cushion (LCAC) craft form Assault Craft Unit Four (ACU-4) after arriving on the beach to begin clean operations in Biloxi, Mississippi (MS), during Hurricane Katrina relief operations. The USN and USMC are taking part in Joint Task Force (JTF) Katrina, by aiding in humanitarian assistance operations, led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in conjunction with the Department of Defense (DOD)

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